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by makomk 3y ago
It's not just a question of overall EROEI. Building wind farms requires most of the energy to be invested up front, whereas the return on that investment happens over decades. This means that the worse energy availability is right now
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by makomk 3y ago
The problem with NIMBYism absolutely was not created by the Tories. Even before their de facto ban, it was ludicrously hard and time-consuming to get wind farms through the planning process, to the point that even berfore the Tories got int
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by makomk 3y ago
We'll see. This is probably going to be much harder and more politically painful than people realise, and the last Labour government didn't really manage it. The current state of UK political discourse is that anything the ruling
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by makomk 3y ago
Someone who only cares about Word, YouTube and browsing Facebook also doesn't need a $1,600 laptop with an 8-core CPU and a chunky GPU, they could get by with something much less powerful and probably wouldn't even notice the diff
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by makomk 3y ago
The conventional media seems to have a huge axe to grind about social media, presumably because it's affected their own influence and prestige, which has warped people's perception of reality a tad. For example, there was a BBC ar
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by makomk 3y ago
One of the key ways that single-payer government healthcare influences costs is precisely by refusing to offer treatments that are too expensive for the benefits compared to the next-best option. In particular, the NHS in the UK - which is
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by makomk 3y ago
Modern GPS receivers are much faster. They can search for every possible satellite at every offset rapidly in parallel, meaning that they don't need the almanac in order to get a GPS lock quickly. They do still need the orbital data fo
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by makomk 3y ago
It's a several decade old piece of hardware that was likely produced in extremely limited quantity, so finding the answer to that is probably not going to be easy. Presumably it was produced as a promotional item made to promote their
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by makomk 3y ago
I think this is quite similar to this analysis of the effects of the more recent supply chain issues on US inflation and the Phillips curve: https://bankunderground.co.uk/2023/07/05/did-supply-constrai... The
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by makomk 3y ago
It's a pretty significant shrink given that a huge chunk of the core's die area is L2 cache which doesn't really shrink at all. If I remember rightly this was better explained in previous coverage when Zen 4c was first annou
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by makomk 3y ago
These aren't really E-cores like the ones Intel or ARM have though - they're microarchtecturally identical to a full Zen 4 core with all the execution units, L1+L2 cache, and out-of-order magic and in theory perform identically to
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by makomk 3y ago
There are already major EU-based news sites that make people choose between paying a monthly subscription and allowing their data to be used for ad targetting. It's hard to see how the EU could get Meta for this without either hurting
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by makomk 3y ago
UK coal burning fell off a cliff in recent years because there's been a huge push to switch to natural gas, which can be switched on and off much faster and so doesn't have this problem when used as a backup to intermittent renewa
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by makomk 3y ago
Ah. Those government stats only count homes as having loft insulation if they have more than 125mm of it (this is actually documented in the PDF you linked but it's all the way on page 24 so if you just read the summary you probably mi
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by makomk 3y ago
Factories elsewhere have been shutting down because they can't compete, which locks us in to buying from China since no-one else will have the ability to produce solar panels in meaningful quantities.
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by makomk 3y ago
Most of the UK absolutely does not. In order to get payback numbers like that, you basically have to have no loft insulation at all, and previous government insulation schemes were so sucessful that there were already very few homes left wi
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by makomk 3y ago
The whole point of proposals like the one the entire linked article is about is to make it seem like vast sums of money can be raised from seemingly small taxes on a few wealthy people by definining those taxes as an annual percentage of to
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by makomk 3y ago
Historically, Microsoft hasn't just paid to make Bing the default, it's required companies to disable the ability to change that default, meaning that all searches from the built-in search bar on (for example) Android devices from
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by makomk 3y ago
The BBC is a British institution though, and the British media has treated the effects of inflation here very differently to how the American media did, with endless front-page coverage of every last detail and prediction and problem wherea
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by makomk 3y ago
It also counts from 1 to 12 correctly with the numerals following the curve, which seems... quite impressive for generative AI.
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by makomk 3y ago
I'm pretty sure there's nowhere in the mainland UK that just dumps all its raw sewage in the sea or in rivers - everywhere on the mainland was retrofitted with sewage treatment a while back. Now, those retrofits aren't perfec
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by makomk 3y ago
Enough people are willing to change it that just paying to be the default wasn't all that effective for Bing or Yahoo. Microsoft's previous strategy was to pay to make Bing the default and remove people's ability to change it
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by makomk 3y ago
The main way that Microsoft has been harmed by Google's actions is that they can no longer pay companies like mobile phone networks to lock search on their devices to Bing and prevent users from changing it, because Google outbid them.
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by makomk 3y ago
Your 1U server seems to be Ivy Bridge-based, which is about a decade or so newer than the Pentium 4 and much, much more energy efficient - and there's a lot of cheap second hand hardware out there from that era as well.
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by makomk 3y ago
This isn't even particularly unusual. Most of Europe can't or won't extradite people when a death sentence is a possibility for basically the same reason, including to the US - the only way for the US to get an extradition is
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by makomk 3y ago
It was - and in fact, associate membership of Horizon Europe was part of the original withdrawal agreement, it was just held up by the EU for years over issues with Northern Ireland. Similarly, the parts of the Brexit deal that are currentl
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Unity made a specific committment in their terms that if those terms changed in a way that disavantaged existing developers, those developers could carry on using the existing annual release under the old terms, and also that they would not
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by makomk 3y ago
Much as I love open source and the Godot engine, this seems more like a wake-up call on the importance of corporations not being able to unilaterally, retroactively change contracts in ways that impose new charges and violate existing contr
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Errm, one huge reason why the EU bureaucracy can be so comparatively small is precisely because it relies on the domestic bureaucracies of its constituent states to translate its decisions into actual actions that impact the actual people l
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by makomk 3y ago
"President Barack Obama attempted to raise the cut-off in 2016, aiming for $47,476, but that was ultimately blocked by a federal judge over states' concerns that the new threshold would increase their costs." That's not

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